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James Hamilton Brown - Solarizations, Blanc et Noir (Diptych)
James Hamilton Brown
Solarizations, Blanc et Noir (Diptych)
$25,000
Gyorgy Kepes - Abstraction (Photogram)
Gyorgy Kepes
Abstraction (Photogram)
$17,500
Gyorgy Kepes - Unitled
Gyorgy Kepes
Unitled
$6,500
Gyorgy Kepes - Untitled, (Men's Clothing Store Window Display, Europe)
Gyorgy Kepes
Untitled, (Men's Clothing Store Window Display, Europe)
$17,500
Ray K. Metzker - Chicago, from Masters Project
Ray K. Metzker
Chicago, from Masters Project
$20,000
Ray K. Metzker - Three-Print Collage/Maquette for Photo Mural
Ray K. Metzker
Three-Print Collage/Maquette for Photo Mural
$10,000
Charles W. Niedringhaus - Photogram of Hand
Charles W. Niedringhaus
Photogram of Hand
$5,500
Frank Paulin - Cuba
Frank Paulin
Cuba
$4,000
Frank Paulin - Lovers, Time Square, New York City, NY
Frank Paulin
Lovers, Time Square, New York City, NY
$8,000
Paul Rosin - Untitled (Diptych)
Paul Rosin
Untitled (Diptych)
$1,500
Arthur Siegel - Pond and Rocks
Arthur Siegel
Pond and Rocks
$2,500
Aaron Siskind - Untitled Abstraction (
Aaron Siskind
Untitled Abstraction ("Rudy and Ana (?) Were Lovers")
$10,000

Arthur Siegel--Photogram, 1937

The New Bauhaus, founded in 1937 in Chicago, was the immediate successor to the German Bauhaus dissolved in 1933 under National Socialist pressure. Bauhaus ideology had a strong impact throughout America, but it was only at the New Bauhaus that the complete curriculum as developed under Walter Gropius in Weimar and Dessau was adopted and further developed.

The former Bauhaus master László Moholy-Nagy was founding director of the New Bauhaus. He then headed the consecutive School of Design from 1938 until his death in 1946 (entitled Institute of Design from 1944 onwards) aiming at liberating the creative potential of his students through disciplined experimentation with materials, techniques, and forms. The focus on natural and human sciences was increased, and photography grew to play a more prominent role at the school in Chicago than it had done in Germany.

Training in mechanical techniques was more sophisticated than it had been in Germany.

Emerging from the basic course, various workshops were installed, such as "light, photography, film, publicity", "textile, weaving, fashion", "wood, metal, plastics", "color, painting, decorating" and "architecture".

The most important achievement at the Chicago Bauhaus was probably in photography, under the guidance of teachers such as György Kepes, Nathan Lerner, Arthur Siegel and Harry Callahan.

Whereas, in addition to Moholy Nagy, Hin Bredendieck and Marli Ehrmann, it was initially other emigrants from the Bauhaus that came to teach in Chicago, the staff was slowly supplemented by Americans. The method and aim of the school were likewise adapted to American requirements.

Moholy Nagy's successor at the head of the Institute of Design, Serge Chermayeff remained still quite true to the original Bauhaus, aiming at the education of the widely oriented universal thinker and designer. This changed step by step in the 1950s and through the merge with the Illinois Institute of Technology. The Institute of Design is even now still part of the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, and rates as a respected and professionally oriented school of design.

Chicago New Bauhaus School Alumni
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